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Sep 17, 2023 · In October of 1565, Menendez left St. Augustine to travel to Havana Cuba. It was on this trip that he and his men captured a group of Frenchmen, who fled earlier conflict, at their temporary fort at Cape Canaveral.
May 8, 2020 · Menéndez spared the women and children and sent them by ship to Havana. He then learned from Timucuan Indians that a group of white men were on the beach a few miles south of St. Augustine. He marched with 70 soldiers to where an inlet had blocked 127 of the shipwrecked Frenchmen trying to get back to Fort Caroline (5 on map).
Feb 15, 2015 · Juan Menéndez, General of the Fleet commanding the New Spain squadron of the Armada of the Indies – Don Pedro’s only son – ignored his father’s express orders and sailed from Havana on August 11, 1563, during the Caribbean’s hurricane season.
Menéndez spared the women and children and sent them by ship to Havana. He then learned from Timucuan Indians that a group of white men were on the beach a few miles south of St. Augustine. He marched with 70 soldiers to where an inlet had blocked 127 of the shipwrecked Frenchmen trying to get back to Fort Caroline.
Ever since 12 October 1565, when Jean Ribault and the larger part of the French Huguenots who had survived the wreck of Ribault's fleet were massacred by Menéndez, the inlet where the deed occurred has been known as Matanzas, meaning "slaughters" in Spanish.
On September 8, 1565, Pedro Menendez de Aviles landed on the shore of Seloy, a large Timucuan town that was situated just opposite what was to become St. Augustine inlet. Menendez was on a military mission to deal with a French incursion into Spain’s new world territory.
While returning to St. Augustine, he and his troops discovered nearly 200 Frenchmen who had survived the shipwreck. Menéndez negotiated their surrender then executed them, including Jean Ribault, near an inlet today known as “Matanzas” (or “slaughters”).
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